https://www.observationgame.com/
Observation (Multi, XPd on PS5) You are SAM, an AI tasked with the operation of a space station. Or are you?
What's happened? Where is the rest of the crew? Why can't she, or you, remember? Strange symbols float in your lenses. What do they want? Uncover the mysteries surrounding the Observation, and yourself, in this Sci-Fi thriller as you assist Emma Fisher via your various functions on the station. Very enjoyable 👍 👍 #SeriesX #GamePass #Gaming #VideoGames #CoSoGaming

https://nomada.studio/gris-game/
Gris (Multi, XPd on Series X)
Gris is hard to explain. You play as a girl that's lost her voice, and her world is crumbling around her because of that. It's a stylish puzzle platformer that hits the feels button hard. You aren't quite sure what's wrong, but something is and everything is dark and sad to start with. You are attempting to fix it and bring the color back to this strange world. Def recommend. #Gris #SeriesX #GamePass #Gaming #VideoGames #CoSoGaming

Well shit, sounds like my kinda party.

Seriously tho, fuck these completely unserious people with iron pineapples. This shit is why I cut the cord a decade ago. Don't sub to any online equivalents either. The hell I'm giving Fox any money.

(My mom is a retired librarian. Pretty sure I would have noticed if she was packing BDSM gear and a coke spoon to go to work.)

The Crystal Method - Keep Hope Alive (Trip Hop Mix)
A sentiment that seems more relevant by the hour, lately. #CoSoMusic #TheCrystalMethod
https://youtu.be/itB15H3xrlI

Cygnus X - Kinderlied Part 1&2 (Remastered) #CoSoMusic #Music #Electronic Feeling a bit "old school" today. https://youtu.be/GliTSot7IFc

Looks like only a matter of time before M$ forces you to use Edge. More and more glad I've been team Linux for over a decade. #PC #Tech #Microsoft #Enshittification

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/new-windows-driver-blocks-software-from-changing-default-web-browser/

Seems it's a bit cold this morning.

#CoSoCats #Cats

https://returntogracegame.com/ Return To Grace (MultiP, p/on #SeriesX)
At 2-3 hrs, RTG is a short walking sim set on Ganymede in 3820. As Adie, explore the Spire complex and find out what happened to an AI named Grace, and whether you can "revive" her.
This is a good mostly on rails experience(couple places the path "branches"). Good writing, voice acting, music. Walk speed is a bit slow. I noticed a few graphical glitches, but nothing game breaking. 👍 👍 #Gaming #CoSoGaming #VideoGames #GameReview

Sooo, I did a thing. Upgraded my PC to AM5 with a 7600X. Here's a link to my Tumblr post about it. Hopefully somebody finds it informative and/or amusing? There's some links to benchmarks I've run at the bottom, too. https://www.tumblr.com/blackknight95857669/743882388455718912/finished-pc-build
#PC #DIY #Linux #Tech #Gaming #CoSoGaming #IBuiltABeast #ItsNotFinished

Spent about 4 hours with WoW yesterday, mostly in Valdrakken. It was playable again.. This i5-6400/RX6800 is so much better than the previous i5-920/1050TI. Could manage 30fps+ at the "7" graphics preset (High, I guess?) Getting set up for the AMD 7600X upgrade. Gonna assemble most of the main board, then pop out the old one so I can swap over the DeepCool heat sink. Drop in the new kit and see if it boots. Then, testing. Then, games. #CoSoGaming #PC #DIY #Upgrade #AMD #Gaming #VideoGames

Man BG3 is good. Playing co-op w/friend that gave me the CPU I'm about to upgrade (she started me down that path lol) Last night we did some of the Goblin Camp (we play 2-3hrs at a time every few days so, not far yet). Freed Volo and took out a good chunk of Goblins inside the keep. Went back to camp and friend said "Hey, talk to Volo, I wanna see what you do."
Those of you that know, yeah I let him finish, and laughed maniacally as I watched him book it outta camp. #CoSoGaming #Gaming #PC #BG3

Newegg tracking email showed today. The final.. oh why bullshit myself, the Next upgrade for this PC is due the 28th. That would be:

Ryzen 5 7600X
MSI MAG B650 Tomahawk WIFI
32GB G.SKILL Flare X5 DDR5 RAM
Team Group/Team Force 2TB M.2

And, the CPU is currently being sold with a free Team Group/Force 1TB SATA SSD. Bonus.

That, paired with this PowerColor RX 6800, should make this a fairly ok beast, I've just realized...

I've made a huge mistake.
#PC #Tech #DIY

Currently in the middle of a total rework of my WoW UI. Discovered almost 20% of my mods weren't being updated by the CurseForge App. Fixed that. Tossed/replaced mods older than DragonFlight xpac. Logged a blank alt/full UI alt. Blank (just a broker display/FPS counter mod) is getting 10+fps more than full UI. This is pretty good, as it used to be almost 30fps difference, heh. Don't pay to get lazy with updating your UI, lol. Still WIP to get that FPS diff closer. #PC #Gaming #WoW #CoSoGaming

Slowly dipping my toes into BG3, been a while since I played a game this dense. Just level 3, about to get to Karlach.Also picking up speed in American Truck Sim(huehue). Doing Quick Jobs, building up cash to buy my own truck, cause fuck the "loans" the "Bank" offers. I'm real impressed with the DeepCool Gammaxx GT CPU cooler I bought. BG3 keeps this i5-6400 pegged at 90-99% use and it never breaks 50°c. Glad it's AM5 compatible, gonna upgrade with a 7600X soon. #PC #CoSoGaming #Gaming

I've gotten everything reinstalled/setup and the one thing I can't get to run is Fallen Earth (old obscure MMO recently revived). Process that previously worked fails. AMD card is sus, as it's the only change. I'm not finding anything to confirm it tho. But, all things considered, this PC is delivering a consistently good Linux AMD gaming experience. Something I wouldn't have thought possible a decade ago. I can almost get into this PC gaming thing. Almost. #PC #Linux #Gaming #CoSoGaming

I have now played both BG3 and American Truck Sim (I like a good sim for podcasts, what's better than cross country truckin?) for about a half hour of gameplay (BG3 character creation ate an hour lol). Thankfully, Mangohud worked for both of them. So I can say that with this setup (i5-6400, RX 6800 16gb, 32gb ram at 3066mhz, PNY SATA 500gb SSD) BG3 ran at 60fps at Ultra in 2K, AT Sim at 120fps at Ultra in 2K. Better than I expected. CPU is sweating a bit tho lol. #PC #Linux #Gaming #CoSoGaming

Last night, I bought Baldur's Gate 3. I've been testing my PC since I got the new GPU/fresh installed the OS, and I'm certain it can handle the game.

So imagine my frustration when, upon downloading the game, it failed to launch.Troubleshot for 3 hours, no dice.

Got up this morning, ready for more troubleshooting. I did my morning routine of updating the system. Noted a Mesa update. Decided to reboot. For fun, loaded Steam and launched BG3.. and it works. Bye. #Gaming #CoSoGaming #PC #Linux

This i5 6400 is trying not to catch on fire keep up with this RX 6800. So I know the limits of this setup (I mean I did but hard numbers yo) and the next upgrades I wanna look at. A 7700k which a BIOS flash will enable support for(including OCing so the chip ends up only being about a 10% bottleneck 🤣 ), and a 2tb NVME for game storage so I can get them off the 8TB HDD. Been kinda enjoying this whole process building a PC, again. Last time was '08 so, shit's changed, lol.

Well it's been a couple days of frustration with the new AMD card. I was unable to remove Nvidia stuff from my OS, so I ended up fresh installing to make sure there were no driver issues. Now I can't install some things but that's likely a Wine issue. Trying to figure out sys performance, it finally dawned on me Phoronix stuff runs on Linux. Duh. Ran GLmark2 and 6 mins later I checked my score against Open Benchmarking's and y'all, this poor CPU cut the card score in half lol. #PC #Linux #Tech

I've been banging my head against the wall with this GPU switch from Nvidia to AMD. System tells me the most current Mesa is installed but there's no way it's working properly based on the performance I'm seeing. Tried reinstalling all packages which failed a bunch of times due to "pgp sigs" but finally succeeded and after a reboot nothing has changed. I guess I could try the "Pro" drivers.. I am thinking a fresh install is looking more likely tho, damn it. #Linux #Garuda #PC #Tech